Word: cambodia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation* conference was supposed to get going, the man who proposed it, Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, had not shown up (but agreed, after some pleading, to come later). As for the Laotians, the Communist side sent two delegations-one headed by a veteran guerrilla representing the Pathet Lao, the other by a onetime Vientiane bookseller who was standing in for self-styled "neutralist'' Prince Souvanna Phouma. The royal government delegation straggled in two days late...
...Britain, France, Russia, Red China, North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Laos, India, Poland, Canada...
...doubled to 9,000 men. Though they have captured no major towns, they now have effective control of almost half the fertile southern delta of the Mekong, where half of South Viet Nam's 14 million people live. If hard pressed, they simply retire across the border to Cambodia, where they maintain a hospital and supply dumps. Though the Geneva International Control Commission has protested the attacks, North Viet Nam replied bluntly last month that "this struggle will not only be carried on but will score ever greater victories until the final defeat of Ngo Dinh Diem...
...into fist fights with local Communists or get up on a soapbox." The volunteer who doesn't live as the native lives will be bounced. "The last thing we want is for Johnny to get money from home, buy himself an air-conditioned Cadillac and drive around Cambodia." Corps members will serve a tour of duty of about two years overseas, will get only a small living allowance but will be able to pick up accumulated pay of $50 to $75 a month when they come home. To the pretty coed who inquired about dating he indicated that neighborliness...
...most deeply believed that Laotians should not fight each other. Outraged when Souvanna again began dickering with his Communist half brother, another army man, General Phoumi Nosavan, organized a rebellion in his turn. Souvanna begged the Russians for help, then fled into exile at a flower-trimmed estate in Cambodia...